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...early two-goal lead. And Sifers, ever the leader, rushing to console Martin after the game-ending dribbler. There is only the sight of Julie Chu, with the dignity, amid the post-game ruckus, to find and hug one of her friends from her other team, fellow U.S. Olympian Katie King, a BC assistant coach. After that, even, Chu lingering on the ice to shake the hand of every last official from a crew that whistled a mere eight penalties in nearly two game’s worth of hockey, the rest of the Crimson long since headed...
...same 400 pounds. Even if Oden brings Ohio State a championship in April, he won’t have given the Buckeye nation as much as it will surely have given him. The same cannot be said for Dawson or Cusworth or world champion fencer Emily Cross or our Olympian women’s hockey players, for that matter. So, while I would love to get to cover a Final Four run, or a bowl game, I’ll take living, growing, and learning with the athletes that I’m covering. Here’s to college...
...play A Very Social Secretary, about the decline and fall of Home Secretary David Blunkett, actor Robert Lindsay is spot on with the PM's speech patterns, mannerisms and tics. Lindsay visibly swells when an aide advises Blair to shun the press after his resignation, telling Blair "You're Olympian." But while waiting for the U.N. to call and offer him "something big" or for Bono to get in touch, Blair sits around toying with the idea of setting up the "Blair Foundation for International Peace and Justice and Interfaith Understanding ... or something like that," or dictating the closing chapters...
What’s in a name?A quick internet search tells me that mine might refer to anything from Scottish nobility to an Australian Olympian to a small town in Iowa. In pop culture, I’ve been everything from a mathematician to a dysfunctional kid genius to a dead child psychologist.But after nearly two decades, my name—unique spelling and all—is something that has become a part of who I am. A name isn’t something that should be changed on a whim or disregarded, and it?...
...begin with, senior co-captain Julie Chu—a two-time Olympian and the “best player in college hockey,” according to Stone—was out for the game against the Huskies, and still noticeably hurt during the draw versus...